Exodus 19:21

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to gaze and many of them perish.

Cross References

Exodus 3:3

And Moses said, “I will turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.”

Exodus 3:5

Then he said, “Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

Exodus 33:20

But,” he said, “you cannot see my face; for man shall not see me and live.”

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil.

Numbers 4:15

And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.

Numbers 4:18

“Let not the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites;

Numbers 4:19

but deal thus with them, that they may live and not die when they come near to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden,

Numbers 4:20

but they shall not go in to look upon the holy things even for a moment, lest they die.”

Deuteronomy 5:5

while I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord; for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:

1 Samuel 6:19

And he slew some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked into the ark of the Lord; he slew seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the Lord had made a great slaughter among the people.